Hi ,
I was just thinking about an artifact that perhaps you could get from the research lab , and that would need ship bots plus other artis to make ,which would make an arti holographic version of your ship which you would use like a trap on your planets and would last for 1 week or until attacked .

This would look the same as if a planet is blockaded : say someone scans your planet and in orbit is a tiny ship , now on the colony tab of the planet it will look like your ship is guarding it with the increase in planet defences that would bring . The scanner would then have to decide if its just a hologram or the real you . To find out they have to attack - then the hologram would vanish and the planets stats would apear as the really are .

The attacker would have to hope that its just a hologram , this could put people off attacking in case it is not , also I just think it is a cool idea . It would make planet invades just a wee bit more exciting - what do you guys think ?

+0.5 like the idea, but doubt it will be used a lot

Yeah I think its more of a cool idea , rather than anything which will drastically change the game or anything . I would defo use all my spare ship bots to create them and put them on all my planets , but they won't actually stop anyone from stealing your planet if their attack is better than your planets defences lol

I don't like it much as a ctlab artifact.
Maybe a badge reward?

When you attack the planet that has a hologram - it looks like you are doing damage as if the guard was actually there.
But when you get the population below 10 the hologram vanishes and the population reflects what it actually is.

Example planet with 100 population and 0 defense but the hologram is on it showing the planet has 50k defense
you attack and it does 20 damage but the population goes down to 98 as if a guard was there.

But most people would just warp the guard away so maybe the hologram warps away for ~2 seconds then reguards.

Well I wasn't too sure about how to get over the warping away problem , but yeah it would work as a new badge item also .

wow, i love that idea

The idea of smashing down a planet with 3k population and maxed defences, never knowing if you are actually warping away a guard and doing real damange or if its all an illusion...

I would also like this.

Though it may make me cry if i ever run into it

If its just one tap and it disappears it doesn't seem like it would do much to deter...well...anyone. And if it just masks the stats and the damage you do there should still be a significant difference in the damage you take to your ship.